To make Sam Harris and Andrew happy we can start with an statement : “God do not exist”
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So in what do we believe? Let me think, we can believe on life.
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Now to your question: What is the life goal of a fly?
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Think even in something smaller, a bacteria, the first living creature that exist 3.5 billion years ago, the origin of all life.
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What do this bacteria have done? Everything that you see, all kind of life, your computer, your house, your car, you.
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For the future the astrophysicists say that this bacteria has a goal: to be immortal and control galaxies.
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Is up to you to be on the side of the bacteria ( life) or on the side of the atheist ( nothing = death ).

(Andrew): Very close to proselytizing here, Janus 6. That line sounds familiar.
You should stick to the OP…i.e. give us one sentence for why you are an atheist. If you’re not an atheist—and it doesn’t sound like you are—why are you in this thread?

“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”—Kurt Vonnegut

To make Sam Harris and Andrew happy we can start with an statement : “God do not exist”

So in what do we believe? Let me think, we can believe on life.

You clearly mean ... if we don’t have the courage to accept what reality tells us about it, but of course you wouldn’t want to state that openly (mainly because you’d have to acknowledge it and maybe even face it).

At any rate, if you don’t have the intestinal fortitude to accept the evidence, and you also don’t have the intellectual discipline to avoid weighing your feelings over that same evidence (i.e. the humility imposed upon us by science and reason), then you may be someone who actually needs to believe in a religion (I personally think there are actually very few such people, at least in terms of the percentage). Any religion will do, really, but for less of a challenge you should pick a local favorite, and ideally, don’t do the fundamentalist schtick. Someone who really needs religion may have a hard time not going fundagelical because it provides a pretty complete (if vacuous) identity for believers, but if you’re concerned at all with what’s actually real and true, you’re going to be in a constant struggle with a high degree of cognitive dissonance in such a church.

Oh ... also, do the rest of us a favor and don’t choose a radical, genuinely militant church.

Personally I’d prefer to simply accept reality as it presents itself in evidence ... much easier once you’ve developed the basic tools, and no dissonance.

Reason is to understanding as theory is to music, and critical thinking as mastery of theory.

“We say, ‘Love your brother.’ We don’t say it really, but… well we don’t literally say it. We don’t really, literally mean it. No, we don’t believe it either. But that message should be clear.”—David St. Hubbins/Nigel Tufnel

( Janus 6) : You have the power to look for the way and the truth and the life

(Andrew): Very close to proselytizing here, Janus 6. That line sounds familiar.
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I am talking about the truth.
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Are the atheists against the truth?
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I am talking about life.
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Are the atheists against life?
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I am talking about the way life have
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Do atheists understand the way the life have?
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Evolution is as a train from San Diego to New York. You are in the train and is up to you to understand where the train is heading. Or say ” Personally I’d prefer to simply accept reality as it presents” SkepticX
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The train in San Diego was the size of a mustard seed, in New York is so large the birds come and perch in its branches
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(Andrew) If you’re not an atheist—and it doesn’t sound like you are—why are you in this thread?

( Janus 6) : You have the power to look for the way and the truth and the life

(Andrew): Very close to proselytizing here, Janus 6. That line sounds familiar.
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I am talking about the truth.
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Are the atheists against the truth?
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I am talking about life.
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Are the atheists against life?
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I am talking about the way life have
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Do atheists understand the way the life have?

(Andrew): I’m talking about you preaching. Your nonsense about the way, truth and life and stuff like mustard seeds and birds perching in branches sounds a lot like lines from the New Testament to me (verses on request).
Let’s try this: If you’ve got one sentence for why you are an atheist, let’s hear it. If you don’t, you’re in the wrong thread.

“Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.”—Kurt Vonnegut